Powerful Noise Reduction for Star, Milky Way & Night Sky Photography
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- I wrote an in-depth blog post to go along with this tutorial, including camera settings, step by step workflows and more. I'd highly suggest checking out the post after watching the video. It includes many tips ( not included in the video ) allowing you to master noise reduction in all aspects of photography.
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VIDEO LINKS & NOTES
Dave's Star Photography Photoshop Actions & Video Tutorials
These are the actions I showed at the end of the video. There is another video included with the link below showing you exactly what they are all about. I use these to edit all my star photos, I think you'll love them too!
Get the actions & watch the video at the link below:
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Nik Software Suite ( Now Free ) - Click Download on top right of page
www.google.com/nikcollection/
Nik Define comes as part of the software suite. That's the program used for noise reduction in the video.
Imagenomic Noise Reduction - I consider this to have a slight edge on Nik, but not much. You can use my methods in the tutorial with either software:
www.imagenomic.com/
I wrote an in-depth blog post to go along with this tutorial, including camera settings, step by step workflows and more. I'd highly suggest checking out the post after watching the video. It includes many tips ( not included in the video ) allowing you to master noise reduction in all aspects of photography.
Noise Reduction Tips, Step By Step Workflow and More. Click the link below:
www.davemorrowphotography.com/...
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Enjoy the Tutorials & As Always, Thanks for Watching:)
Cheers,
Dave
Dude, this is a really smart way to isolate the darks. Thank you so much!
Thanks:) Anytime!
Another outstanding tutorial. Love your work. Keep it up!! Just purchased your Ultimate Package. These are going to be extremely useful for my editing.
+John Kittles thanks buddy! Enjoy the tutorials I think you'll really like them:) Have a good one
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Boom. Dave drops the mic and goes home!
+PD I went and had an espresso;) In my kitchen haha.
PS: & Thanks!
Dave, really great videos. Thanks a lot for explaining these items. Your ebook and videos are the best ones I have seen on night photography. Keep it coming.
Hi Steve,
I really appreciate that!
Have a great day:)
Nice video. Love the pace and all info is important - no Blah Blah Blah. Love it. Second video I have seen of yours. Nice brand. Subscribed and will go through more of them. Thanks for all your efforts.
This is great Dave; I love how you are always able to explain everything both in a fast and very easy way so we can all learn no matter how advanced we are in the techniques you use.
Thanks a lot. Every new video you upload I play with joy; keep them coming. Thanks and thanks again!
One more thing I always forget to ask you Dave: Have you been playing around with Capture One at all? There's lot of potential there, I would love to hear your take on that program.
+Nicolás Cuervo awesome. I love hearing that. Those attributes are my main goal when making videos:) Cheers for the nice comment.
+Nicolás Cuervo I never use new programs LR+PS that's it. They work great. I'd rather spend time getting better at either of them then spend time learning the basics of a new program. That's my take...even if capture one is awesome:)
Thanks for sharing this Dave.
You're welcome, Mus
Loved this video it was super helpful!! Thank you
you're welcome:)
Amazing turorial! cheers my friend
Cheers brother.
Wow this works amazing. Thanks you so much
Sure anytime Jeremy.
Great video! very useful. thanks for sharing.
+Sebastien Degardin Anytime. Thanks for your nice comment:)
excelent video. Very easy to understand. Suscribed!
thanks Ivan!
Thanks Dave, It really helped me reduce noise while keeping faint stars sharp 👍
You're welcome!
what sort of magical voice and turtorial, you seems like rapping but i still can understand what you say. boom ! keep up the good work man
Thank you Ian:)
Excellent video Dave! Saw this in PetaPixel today and I really appreciate your video! Haven't messed around with Luminosity Masks yet, so I'll be playing with them this weekend. Well done, brotha! Thanks for sharing!!!
+Jason Steen cheers buddy, anytime:)
kudos
Just came accross your videos today, and I must say awesome and thank you! I have one question. What metering mode are you using in live view? Thanks in advance!
Man you have one of the best photography channels on youtube, that deserves more subs. Keep up the good work.
+lintownboy thanks so much. I really appreciate that.
Just a guess but it's probably because I spend my time as a landscape photographer where as many youtube channels spend all their time as TH-camrs promoting their actual youtube ( usually posting weekly or more ). That same time for me goes into traveling and shooting, editing photos, growing website traffic ( info on this below ), and growing an email list ( 40,000 ppl at this point ) which i feel is a much more sustainable method long term. These are things I also have 100% control over and always will.
My main goal is to target niche topic keywords on Google which meet the same criteria as things I'm passionate about in life. Google search is the most visited website on earth and drives traffic directly to my site with 1 click where TH-cam it takes 2 clicks to get to my site. That one click is a HUGE difference.
If you google, "star photography", "star photography tutorial", "northern lights photography tutorial" you'll see where I put in my time;) You can do that for both web search and image search. This drives a lot of traffic directly to my website.
Just a few insights on how I think about growing traffic in a sustainable way. I believe TH-cam is truly sustainable for Google, but I'm not sure how sustainable it is for the people that base their entire income on it since their entire user base is all in the hands of Google's decisions. That would be a scary thing in my opinion.
None the less I still love creating on this platform, it's such an awesome service:)
Sorry if that was too much information. I just really like this sort of discussion!
Cheers & Thanks,
Dave
Dave Morrow
nono dont apologize, I love that you took your time to give me a informal and well written answer. I want to promote my own website, and im going to do the google keyword thing also. I also get that you are out on the road a lot creating these images for us. Do you have 500px or 1x accounts? I dont think iv seen you on those sites.
+lintownboy Cool! That's awesome.
A website is where most of your time should go. My advice would be don't worry too much about any services that you can't control ( Facebook, Twitter, TH-cam, etc ). These are great tools to drive traffic and communicate with others, but not a great place to build a long term successful business model.
All Entrepreneurs have different business models that works ( or may not ) for them. I knew I liked to travel and take lots of time off, sometimes 3 months away from my business at a time. So for me a scalable model that was completely automated and made the same amount of income if I was there or away was key.
With social media you need to have nearly constant physical input to gain an output ( I use Co-Schedule for this then pop in to answer questions here and there ). With a large traffic website with lots of good information that ranks highly in Google you don't need constant input to get the same or larger amounts of output. Google doesn't care of your content is new or old, only that it is pertinent and very informative for the keywords it's highly ranked for. This is why it's much better to build on your own domain and gain search authority than to spend that same time on social media. This is black and white, there isn't a right or wrong. It's pure logic:)
That being said all free tools should be heavily analyzed using the Pareto Principle and Power Law:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
When I run social media through these they fall completely. When I run building authoritative websites through this they win the gold.
That being said you'll notice something like TH-cam does an awesome job to compliment my large / high ranking tutorials on my website. For each big tutorial I write a video tutorial usually helps to add to the information. Google Search does search and "crawl" youtube, but does not do so with facebook. Everything you do on Facebook is essentially time lost, where everything you do on your website can work for you long term in an exponential way.
This is my scientific approach to building a sustainable business model that scales with out constant and repetitive input.
Check out these sites, they have helped me immensely in growing traffic in an effective way, allowing the filtering of target audience in niche topics. The smart passive income podcast is amazing when you're starting out in that stuff and even after you gain some knowledge.
www.smartpassiveincome.com/
backlinko.com/
In regards to 500PX yes I use it. My assistant does all the photo uploading and and workflow for me, I go in an chat with people once a week or so:) No go on the 1X. I try to limit those accounts to facebook, 500px and instagram. That's it. All those are handled by my team, but I'm the one that goes in a answers comments.
Another long explanation, but you said you enjoyed the last!
Cheers,
Dave
Dave Morrow
Thank you thank you and thank you, great advice. You should teach people about this :)
I just added you on IG, im the guy "lindstenfoto" I have some astropics on my account also :) Have a good one
+lintownboy Sure anytime. I could talk about that stuff all day, it's fun! There are guys ( linked in the last post ) that know alot more than I on the topic. In terms of building photography websites I may create some tutorials... eventually. I'll check you out in IG!
Enjoy the day!
Dave
Hey Dave, great video! However, I have another problem. Which is vertical banding in my photo. I stacked 28 images with a median filter, but got the banding. It appears as purple vertical lines. I've tried adding noise, or Dfine 2 but neither has worked. Any ideas on what I should do? Cheers
How would the "blend if" method compare to this method of selecting which areas to reduce noise?
I am following every step to the t. Nothing is mathmching up to what you are doing. I'm frustrated. Now Once I go to channels they are all highlighted and it will not allow me to drag the rgb channel to the bottom. I'm stuck here and can't do anything else. Please help
Great! Do more videos! But not just editing tutorials.. Olso real life photography & gear tutorials even hiking videos😃
thanks for the input:) I'll like it!
You never finished the job, after you selected the darks, what did you use to clean the noise?
Hey Dave, Absolutely love the video. Thankyou. Well explained and very helpful..... Question though... The Link to Nik Software Suite Free no longer works.... Do you know where it can now be found? I did a google search but seemed to get all the wrong answers... Thanks again and keep up the amazing work!!
Thanks! Nik isn't free anymore, but here is the link: nikcollection.dxo.com/
What's Up Everyone,
I wrote an in-depth blog post to go along with this tutorial. It includes step by step workflows, in camera settings and more.
www.davemorrowphotography.com/NoiseReduction-for-NightSkyPhotography
Cheers,
Dave
Hi Dave, great video (as always). one question: why do you recommend to do noise reduction as the LAST step. don't you amplify the noise with other processing steps?
+AstrophotographyDiaries Sure anytime. Thanks. I rarely do destructive / noise inducing editing. This is just my personal preference from editing thousands of images. Everything I show on here is personal preference from lots of testing:) Do what works best for you!
Thanks for the tutorial! I never thought to use a luminance mask for noise reduction. Incidentally, if you haven't already, you should check out the EasyPanel from Jimmy McIntyre - lovely and free means of automating the process.
You're welcome. Jimmy is a great guy:)
Hi Dave, great tutorial except it's not working for me-I don't get what you get on screen, my first Alpha channel looks like your first Darks channel, then if I follow the process from there it seems to do the opposite - gets lighter instead of darker. Any clues? Cheers, Alex
Yes, do it 100 times... it will work
Nik isn't available anymore.If we just apply your process without Nik, will the noise reduction still take place?
Great video! Some 50hz hum is creeping in your audio :) Find the source or add a 100hz highpass filter ;)
Thanks for the tip!
For fuck sake Dave!! Way beyond the norm, even for me who is a very advanced photographer. Love your stuff ;)
+DAVE CASEY haha!! I'll take that as you enjoyed the video? People have been asking for more advanced stuff so I'll start putting it out there:) Thanks!
I know I will sound like the beginner I am, but wouldn't it be easier to use a black and white of the photo as a mask and play with the contrast and brightness?
No not at all
Does the $25 package one come with these actions or is it the $60 one?
They all do. Complete info on the page --> www.davemorrowphotography.com/2014/10/star-photography-photoshop-actions.html
Dave Morrow thank you very much Dave keep up the awesome work... just purchase your e-book it's awesome... can I find you on Facebook?
Llamar, you're welcome:) Thanks for the nice comments.
Hopefully you really enjoy the book!
I don't do the whole social media thing, but do put up 20-30 new pictures each month or two at photos.davemorrowphotography.com/
have a great day!
Dave Morrow dude I'm just looking at the photos on your website! You one badass photographer!😳 everything is perfect awesome dynamic range thanks again Dave
Thanks for looking:) Cheers & enjoy the day!